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Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Moscow Tuesday.

Pakistan Says It Dodged U.S. Efforts To Put It On A Terror-Finance List

"Our efforts paid" off, says Pakistan's foreign minister, claiming a global task force failed to reach consensus on punishing the country.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai speaks with students at Denver South High School, in October 2016.

Malala Yousafzai Returns To Pakistan For First Time Since 2012 Attack

The education advocate and human rights campaigner became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate after being shot in the head at age 15 by a Taliban gunman.

Dozens of worshippers pray outside the Haidari Mosque in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

Pakistan Calls Off Limits On Mosque Attendance In Time For Ramadan

The clampdown on public gatherings was openly defied by clerics and worshippers. Now the government has changed the rules as the holy month is about to begin.

A 5-pound newborn girl is swaddled in a blanket in a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. She was born on Jan. 1, 2020.

UNICEF Estimates 400,000 Babies Will Be Born On New Year's Day

Over half those births will happen in just eight countries, according to the U.N. agency.

Zulekha Dawood leads the group of female cyclists through the impoverished Lyari neighborhood in Karachi, Pakistan. They ride early in the morning to avoid the worst of the traffic.

Women Who Dare To Bicycle In Pakistan

If boys can ride bikes, "why shouldn't we?" asked Zulekha Dawood. So she organized a group that goes on weekly excursions — despite the disapproval of many men.

Suhai Aziz Talpur, seen in her office in Karachi's Clifton police station, has emerged as a hero in Pakistan after she led a mission to take down militants who stormed the Chinese consulate in November.

In Pakistan, Female Police Officers Are Rare. This One Quelled A Militant Attack

"I am, with the grace of almighty Allah, a successful role model for women," Suhai Aziz Talpur says. The senior police official led an operation against militants who attacked the Chinese consulate.

Saad, 22, and Mayda, 22, were celebrating their first Valentine's Day together.

In Pakistan, Valentine's Day Brings Out Roses And Culture Wars

Conservative Pakistanis keep trying to ban any celebration of the Christian saint of love, but flower sellers keep turning up for couples who mark the day.

<em>Wall Street Journal</em> newspaper reporter Daniel Pearl was killed by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002. A video of his interrogation and death was sent to the U.S. Consulate in Karachi and posted on the Internet.

Pakistan Court Orders Release Of Man Accused Of Killing 'Wall Street Journal' Reporter

Journalist Daniel Pearl's beheaded body was found in a shallow grave in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in 2002. The murder conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was overturned last year.

Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif says copies of the Urdu translation of his irreverent novel, <em>A Case of Exploding Mangoes</em>, were seized from his publisher's office this week. The book was published in English in 2008 to wide international acclaim and was translated into Urdu in September.

Pakistani Author Comes Under Fire For Satirical Novel After Urdu Edition Is Published

Copies of a new Urdu edition of Mohammed Hanif's 2008 novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, were seized Monday. Rights groups say it's another sign that freedom of expression is threatened in Pakistan.

Imran Khan, prime minister of Pakistan, arrives for the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Beijing National Stadium, last month.

Pakistan's Imran Khan faces a political showdown — without the army for support

Amid a series of missteps, the cricket star-turned-politician faces a no confidence vote after the country's all-powerful generals signaled that they would no longer back him.

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